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Characters: Hanuman and Sita
Date/Time: June 29th
Location: Berkeley
Rating: PG?
Warnings: Likely none
Summary: Hanuman shows up to take Sita out for one of their regular dinners.


Sitting on the bench outside her building, Hanuman stretched his legs out in front of him and leaned back on braced arms as he looked up at the sky. For a few moments, he contemplated the clouds, translating their shapes in his head. Then he counted them. Then he sang through the lyrics of the last song he heard before leaving the house. In his head, of course.

With all of that done, he was left still waiting and he sighed. Lifting his head, he squinted towards the front door again.

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"Sorry!" Sita said, rushing out of the building. The door slammed behind her as she attempted to get her purse settled on her shoulder. "My housemate was talking and you know how she gets sometimes..." Which was hard to shut up. Especially when Sita felt sort of bad cutting her off.

"Anyway," she said, pausing her frenzied activity. "Where are we going today?"

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"Wherever you want," he answered cheerfully. Hanuman had bounded to his feet the moment she appeared and he took her hand in a friendly, unpracticed way once she had settled her purse. He squeezed it and grinned. "Dinner, for sure, because I'm starving and I could eat a horse. Do you feel like something spicy or themed or just basic?"

[chose-fire.insanejournal.com]

"Hmm," she said. "Themed. Color themed. If I said green, yellow, and red, where would we go?"

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"Thai, it is!" Hanuman's grin broadened almost impossibly. "I know a great place and it's not a far walk from here. You don't mind walking, right?"

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She shook her head and smiled. "No, walking's good." It was a nice evening, after all, and it was probably good for her to stretch her legs doing something other than walking between her lab and the stock room.

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"Sweet. It won't take us long. Promise." With a sudden, unexpected movement, he stuck out his arm in an old-fashioned gentlemanly gesture He smiled over it at her.

[chose-fire.insanejournal.com]

She grinned and took the offered arm without hesitation. The past couple weeks had been...weird and were something that she hadn't thought a lot about as well as something that she didn't want to think a lot about. Which was why Hanuman was great. He always seemed genuinely happy, and that was the best distraction she'd come across so far.

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As if sensing her need for distraction, he kept a cheerful flow of chatter going - school and classes and parties, amusing stories about people she had never met, etc. Gently, he led their steps to the restaurant he had mentioned. It was a quiet little place, completely unprepossessing, but the scent of pure Thai heaven assaulted them the moment they crossed the threshold. Javi gifted the hostess with an award-winning grin and soon they were seated at a cozy table in the back.

He chuckled as he lifted the menu. "I think she thinks we're on a date," he mentioned lightly.

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The thought startled a laugh out of her. In a lot of ways, Sita still operated under the idea that everyone saw the world exactly the way she saw it. She knew she wasn't on a date with Hanuman and so she sort of assumed everyone else did too. Which obviously wasn't true, now that she thought about it.

As she was thinking all this, a thought flashed briefly through her head that she could make some flippant comment about Rama. She tamped that down almost immediately. Usually she was good at not thinking about Rama, not thinking about why she hadn't met him in this life. Everything with the fairies had changed that resolve a little bit, and she didn't like it.

She tamped all that down and smiled at Hanuman. "If they only knew the truth."

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"That you're really just taking your pet monkey for a walk?" Hanuman's grin never wavered and his eyes continued to spark with laughter. "Yeah, I know. They'd lose their minds. But it's okay. We know the truth so whatever."

He glanced back down at the menu. "How hungry are you? Do you want to split any appetizers?"

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"Oh don't say that," she interjected. Hanuman meant way more to her than a "pet monkey," especially at this point. She knew he was joking, but still.

The menu, though, was also distracting. "Yes, let's get an appetizer or two. Spring rolls?"

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"Spring rolls sound great to me. With sweet chili sauce, of course. You can't have them without that." He pondered. "And I'm totally doing Thai iced tea. You?"

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"Too sweet for today, I think," she said. "Besides, I'm probably getting something with peanut sauce and that's already on the sweet side."

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"Fair enough. They do really good chicken satay here." Squirming a bit in his seat, Hanuman managed to boost himself enough so he could lean across the table and peer at her menu. His own was right in front of him, obviously, but when had that mattered to him? Personal space? Meh, never mind.

He craned his neck. "I was thinking panang myself. With chicken."